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Certificate

A credential used to prove the origin, authenticity, and purpose of a public key to the entity that holds the corresponding private key.

Certificate authority (CA)

The service that accepts and fulfills certificate requests and revocation requests and that can also manage the policy-directed registration process a user completes to get a certificate.

Certificate revocation list (CRL)

A digitally signed list (published by a certificate authority) of certificates that are no longer valid.

Child domain

Domains located directly beneath another domain name (parent domain). For example, engineering.scribes.com is a child domain of scribes.com, the parent domain. Also called a subdomain.

Child object

An object based on another object or inside another object. For example, a file is a child object inside a folder, which is the parent object.

Counter

A component within an object that represents data for a specific aspect of the system or service.

Counter log

A recorder of data at predefined intervals.

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